In this report Beal submits an account of the present-day conditions of rearing live stock in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, and suggests measures by means of which the future of this industry might be improved and greatly increased. As compared with other great stock-raising countries ...

The approximate numbers of livestock in Fiji are: -Cattle 80 000 horses and mules, 10, 000; sheep, 1, 000; goats, 6, 000; and pigs 4, 000. Annual birth-rate of cattle is estimated at 10, 000; the number killed for meat or exported, 4, 500; number of deaths from old age, disease, and Fijian...

This report is divided into three sections dealing respectively- (1) with contagious diseases, (2) the veterinary pathological laboratory, and (3) the school of veterinary medicine.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Cattle plague and double inoculation. -During the year there were 873 deaths from cattle plague...

The number of fresh outbreaks during the year was eight and the mortality 798 head, as compared with five and 374, respectively, during the previous year. Eleven farms regarded as infected at the beginning of the year were released from quarantine, no case of the disease having occurred on any of...

This report contains nothing of great interest. During 1920, 15, 541 animals were imported, to the value of over one million rupees. These included Madagascar bullocks 9, 931, goats 2, 389, pigs 1, 310, sheep 1, 169, mules 258, horses 169, ponies 218, donkeys 4, dogs 6, cows and bulls (stud...

SECTION ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Cattle Plague (Rinderpest). During the year, 1, 794 deaths were reported in two Governates and 14 Provinces. This represented a death-rate of about 0.1 per cent. In addition to the cases that occurred in the interior of the country, 621 cases were detected amongst ...

East Coast Fever (African Coast Fever). -Fourteen new centres of infection are reported. In reality, however, there were only three fresh outbreaks due to unknown or unsuspected origin, viz., (1) at Quagga's Hoek, in the Melsetter district; (2) the Matopo Hills west of the Malundi River and...

This report contains nothing of great interest. During 1920, 15, 541 animals were imported, to the value of over one million rupees. These included Madagascar bullocks 9, 931, goats 2, 389, pigs 1, 310, sheep 1, 169, mules 258, horses 169, ponies 218, donkeys 4, dogs 6, cows and bulls (stud...

I. This paper, which is written for the general public, gives a short account of the buffalo fly (Lyperosia exigua[Haematobia irritans exigua] de Meijere) in Australia, with special reference to the work done by the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
There is no doubt that...

The Staff and accommodation have been increased during the last year or two. Mr. GILL returned from his long tour of institutions in North America, Europe, South Africa and Australia, in the course of which he had made contact between the Wallaceville laboratory and the workers on various cognate...